Hmm... This link was posted to another list today. It's a diary of a trip in the mountains in the same time period as this obit. It includes pictures of them (women included) camping in tents. http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/rives/rives_diary.html Joy ----- Original Message ----- From: James Stone To: nancie o ; scsparta@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] The Lantern 1901 Outside of the military, not many people camped in tents in this country, except soldiers and people at revival meetings. Evidence of this is echoed in this article, where it was so rare that someone would have a tent, that it was mentioned in his obituary. James

Lets move the rare tent camping to pre 1865. Joy King wrote: >Hmm... This link was posted to another list today. It's a diary of a trip in the mountains in the same time period as this obit. It includes pictures of them (women included) camping in tents. >http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/photo/rives/rives_diary.html > >Joy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James Stone > To: nancie o ; scsparta@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:47 PM > Subject: Re: [SCSPARTA] The Lantern 1901 > > > Outside of the military, not many people camped in tents in this country, except soldiers and people at revival meetings. Evidence of this is echoed in this article, where it was so rare that someone would have a tent, that it was mentioned in his obituary. > > James > Spartanburg County researchers are encouraged to visit the USGenWeb Spartanburg County website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~scsparta/. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCSPARTA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >